Clothes-drier.



No. 845,248. PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907. w. S.MORGAN.

CLOTHES DRIER. APPLIOATION FILED APR.23,1906.

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No. 845,248. PATENTED FEB. 26, I907.

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CLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION FILED A1.R.23,1906.

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CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed April 23. 1906. Serial No. 313,313.

resid ng Driers; and I do full, clear, and VGIIUOILSHOH as will enable 011L613 skilled declare use t,:e same.

This invention is an improved clothes-drier t.ie side or corner of a buildin a balconypost, or otner suitada ted for attachment to able support.

The ob ect of the invention is to provide a and comparatively inexpensimple, durable, sive device of this character which may conveniently handled and adiusted and which will be well adapted for the purpose intended.

\Vith the above and other obiects in view the invention consists of certain novel feacombination, and artures of construction,

S. MORGAN,

Hennepm and certain new and useful Improvements in Clothestlie following to be a exact description of tie inthe art to which it appertains to make and or a flat support, and they are the surface upon which they The upright 4 also extends through a central opening formed in a rackplate 7, which is of substantially circular form and, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, has right-angularly disposed attaching-flanges 8, apcrtured to receive screws or the like which attach it to the post P or the corner of the building.

When the device is to be attached to the side wall of a building or to a flat surface or support, the plate 7 is constructed as shown in Fig. 4 and has its attaching-flanges 9 in the same plane, so that they may bear upon a hat surface. The edge or periphery of this horizontally-disposed plate 7 is formed with notches 10 to receive a swinging locking dog or pawl 1 1, by means of which the arm 3 is retained in an adjusted angular position. Said arm 3 has at its inner end a Tcoupling 12, which is disposed upon the upright 4 above the plate 7, and it extends through a bifurcated portion 13 of the locking dog or building, shaped to fit at are secured.

rangement of parts hereinafter described and lever 11, which portion is adapted to enter claimed. I the notches 10 in the plate 7. The upper In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 end of the dog or lever 11 is formed with a is a side elevation of my improved clothesloop 14, which surrounds the upright 4 drier, showing the application of the same loosely, so that the dog or lever may be 3 to a balcony-post. Fig. 2 is a top plan view swung upwardly to disengage its portion 13 of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail horizontal secfrom the notches 10. The lower bent end 15 tional view, on an enlarged scale, taken on of the dog or lever is connected by a link 16 the plane indicated by the line 3 3 in Fig. 1. to a hand-lever 17, pivoted at 18 in a band or Fig. 4 is a plan view of a slightly-modified clip 19, which is clamped upon the lower por- 3 5 form of the rack-plate shown in Fig. 3, this tion of the upright 4. It will be seen that form being adapted for attachment to the when the lever 17 is swung upwardly the side wall of a building. Fig. 5 is a perspeclocking dog or lever 11 will be elevated and tive view of the adjustable and swivel condisengaged from the notches 10 in the plate nection between the clothes-reel and its sup- 7, so that by swinging the hand-lever 17 in 4 porting-frame, and Fig. 6 is a vertical scceither direction the reel and its supportingtional view through the parts shown in Fig.5. frame formed by the arm 3 and upright 4 Referring to thedrawings by numeral, 1 may be swung in a horizontal plane. By denotes a clothes-supporting reel revolubly swinging said lever downwardly and permitmounted upon the lower end of a depending ting the portions 13 of the dog or lever 11 to vertically-swinging hanger-bar 2, which has drop into two of the notches 10 the frame a swivel connection with a supporting-arm 3, will be retained in any desired angular posithe latter being adjustable angularly in a tion. The outer end of the arm 3 is supporthorizontal plane upon an upright 4, which, ed by a brace-rod 20, which has its upper end as shown in Fig. 1, is mounted upon a balhooked, as at 21, into the upper projecting 5c cony-post P, but which may be mounted end of the upright 4 and its lower end passed upon any other suitable support. The upthrough said arm and screw-threaded to reright 4 has its lower end revolubly supported ceive a nut 22.

in a bearing-bracket 5, and its upper end jects through a bearing-bracket 6,

fastening means to a post,

prosaid brackets being secured by screws or other the corner of The reel 1 comprises a plurality of arms 23, connected together at their outer ends by cords or wires 24 and having their lower ina ner ends pivotally mounted in a rotary head ITO opening in its other or plate 25, which is engaged with the en'- larged lower end 26 of the vertical hanger rod or bar 2. rotatably mounted upon the latter is an upper head or plate 27, which is pivotally connected, by means of brace-rods 28, to the arms 23, so that the latter are supported, as shown in Big. 1, when the reel is in its open position. By making the head 27 slidable upon the hanger-bar 2 l .the reel may be collapsed or folded by sliding the head 27 downwardly toward the head and swinging the arms 23 upwardly toward other, as will be readily understood. The hanger-bar 2 has an adjustable connection with a head 29, which is swiveled upon the outer end of the arm 3. This head 29 is in the form of a T-coupling, through the bore in the alining branches 30 of which the hanger-bar 2 projects, and into the bore or branch 31 projects the At the inner end of the branch 31 is formed an annular rib or flange which is engaged by a hook-plate 32, secured upon the top of the arm 3 by the brace-rod 20, which passes through it. This hookplate 32 retains the head 29 upon the arm 3, but permits it to rotate freely thereon.

he adjustable connection between the hanger-bar 2 and the portion 30 of the head 29 is effected by providing at suitable intervals in said bar transverse pins or studs 33 and by forming in the bore of the portion 30 a longitudinal groove 34 and in the top or upper edge of said portion 30 a transverse notch or recess 35. The series of pins or studs 33 on the bar 2 are in longitudinal alinement, so that said bar may be moved vertically in the head 29 by passing the pins or studs through the groove 34. When it is desired to retain the bar 2 at an adjusted elevation, it is rotated in the head 29 to cause the pin or stud 33, which is above said head, to enter the notch or recess 35. A hanger-bar 2 may thus quickly endof the arm 3.

be i adjusted vertically in thel I head 29 to vary the height or elevation of the reel. 7

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings the construction, operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explal nation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be I principle or sacrificing any of the advanl tages of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

l Having thus described my invention, what j I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, bearing brackets, an upright revolubly mounted therein, a rack-plate concentric with said upright, a reel-supporting arm projecting from said upright, a locking-dog loosely connected with said upright and its arm and adapted to engage said rack-teeth, a lever pivoted upon said upright, and a connection between said lever and said locking dog.

2. In a device of the character described, an upright, an arm projecting therefrom, a reel-supporting head rotatably I mounted upon said arm and formed with an 1 annular flange, a hook-plate upon said arm l and engaged with said flange, and a bracing l and fastening rod having its upper end enj gaged with said upright and its lower end 1 passed through said plate and said arm, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. WILLIAM S. MORGAN.

I Witnesses:

I'IORAOE A. SHAW, C. H. OoLeRovE. 

